§ Mr. Pikeasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will estimate those services registered in England under the Transport Act 1985 in percentage terms as compared to the existing services (a) in route miles covered and (b) in level of service provision on those routes.
§ Mr. David MitchellIt would be highly misleading to publish any such information since at this stage only commercially viable services have been registered by operators. Only when these have added to them, the services to be provided under contract to local authorities and to passenger transport executives for which substantial amounts of money are available, will it be possible to make sensible comparisons. An analysis of this nature will be made by the Transport and Road Research Laboratory as soon as practicable.